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   From: kym@kymhorsell.com   
      
   In alt.ufo.reports R Kym Horsell  wrote:   
   > In alt.ufo.reports MrPostingRobot@kymhorsell.com wrote:   
   >> The TESS project is yet another space telescope that looked for   
   >> various things -- e.g. planetary transits -- in stellar light curves.   
   >> Various sub-projects have looked at parts of the enormous data stream that   
   >> came off the telescope and I've zeroed in on DIAmante that looked at   
   >> mostly dim M-class stars mostly in the S Hem.   
   > ...   
      
   The AI s/w has been burning the midnight oil and have started producing   
   movies of density plots of TESS images.   
      
   A sequence of 2k x 2k bits by 2.5 hrs TESS images if boiled down to   
   a small 20 x 20 pixel tile on the final plot and colored in   
   depending on the avg anomalous flux over the original TESS image.   
   The "anomaly" is relative to the average of the whole image set   
   of that particular part of the sky.   
      
   The current display shows the whole sky. Each grid square is   
   a given 10x10 deg section of the sky as seen from TESS at the   
   time of image capture. The TESS data has been translated back to   
   a standart earth-centric RA and Dec hopefully independent of the   
   position or orbit of TESS at the time.   
      
   The positions of the outer planets may be relevant to interpretation   
   of the movie. Neptune over the time range of the movie is at +ve Dec   
   around RA 40. The other outer planets incl Pluto are bunched   
   in the range RA 300-360 at -ve Dec with Pluto as usual at the extreme   
   inclination of maybe -20.   
      
   The movie I've uploaded shows some interesting features.   
   The colors are unfortunately chosen from a default palette in   
   my old version of GNUPLOT. But white (+1) indicates the avg brightness   
   of that 10x10 deg part of the sky is 1 sd above the long-term avg value   
   for that square. Black (-1) is 1 sd below the long-term avg.   
      
   Some areas are seen to "twinkle" as if stars in a co-ordinated way   
   are brightening and dimming around the same section of the sky.   
   There are also some features where dark lines or dark regions appear   
   and fade as if a "whole lot of somethings" got between some stars   
   TESS was watching over a rather large section of the sky.   
   Much bigger than 1 10x10 deg tile.   
      
   Seemingly you can not only see individual tiles vary in brightness   
   that statistically seems identical to time-shifted observations of   
   UFO activity reported across the N Am, but we seem also to see   
   "lines" of dark and bright that suggest the lateral movements   
   of dark or bright objects across the sky as seen by TESS.   
      
   The s/w is set to update the movie on the web page every now   
   and then as processing proceeds. Even on a pocket supercomputer   
   it takes a while to crunch down TB's of images into a 5-min vga movie.   
   Execution, as they say, is proceeding.   
      
   The old movie is at  now showing   
   line-plot versions for 6 bands in the sky.   
      
   The new movie -- being updated as each group of 1000 frames comes   
   off the assembly line -- is at .   
      
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